Greater Good Magazine

Compassion literally means “to suffer together.” Among emotion researchers, it is defined as the feeling that arises when you are…

Can You Be Trained to Be More Compassionate?

Compassionate Love Quiz

Robert Emmons, perhaps the world’s leading scientific expert on gratitude, argues that gratitude has two key components, which he describes…

Do Men Have a Gratitude Problem?

Gratitude Quiz

Mindfulness means maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment, through…

Can You Be Trained to Be More Compassionate?

Mindfulness Quiz

For the Greater Good Science Center, “diversity” refers to both an obvious fact of human life—namely, that there are many different…

Do Men Have a Gratitude Problem?

Connection to Humanity Quiz

Awe is the feeling we get in the presence of something vast that challenges our understanding of the world, like looking up at millions of…

The Surprising Benefits of Teaching a Class Outside

Awe Quiz

When researchers refer to the concept of social connection, they mean the feeling that you belong to a group and generally feel close to…

Why You Click with Certain People

Social Capital Quiz

Most of us probably don’t believe we need a formal definition of happiness; we know it when we feel it, and we often use the term to…

Five Ways to Support Students Affected by Trauma

Stress and Anxiety Quiz

Psychologists generally define forgiveness as a conscious, deliberate decision to release feelings of resentment or vengeance toward a person…

Greater Good Summer Reads

Forgiveness Quiz

The term “empathy” is used to describe a wide range of experiences. Emotion researchers generally define empathy as the ability to sense…

Why You Click with Certain People

Empathy Quiz

Altruism is when we act to promote someone else’s welfare, even at a risk or cost to ourselves. Though some believe that humans are…

How Seeing the Good in People Can Help Bridge Our Differences

Altruism Quiz